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Tony Ennis

@tonyennis

4,360 Tweets
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Building software teams & mobile apps Prev: Built a bank in Asia YC S21

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Jun 28 Some examples... https://t.co/BvGd0g79Hh 1 0 0 0 40 .
Jun 28 It's a testament to how dominant they've become, that when a search returns bad results, our immediate thought is "This information must just not exist on the internet" 1 0 0 0 168 .
Jun 28 Another example of "This product is great, but could be infinitely better." is Google. Pagerank was the best search algorithm when the internet was in its infancy. Nowadays there are so many search categories which come up blank, or return mediocre, SEO-optimized marketing posts. 5 0 0 0 280 .
Jun 23 https://t.co/Ks6JtYtcRK 0 0 0 0 23 .
Jun 22 @nateliason When you need to empower teams to do analytics off the back of the data. With Postgres or another relational db you can hook it in to metabase or other. Firebase is a black box 8 0 0 0 188 .
Jun 22 @krlvi @zegl See also https://t.co/dUCQhGLZW6 0 0 0 0 47 .
Jun 22 Why I invested in @krlvi and @zegl (https://t.co/nY5Hs19UNM) in a nutshell. Git's been great, and it's "much better than the alternatives", but it's so far from being optimal for modern software development. https://t.co/CR3wvU7T3Q https://t.co/NRktXzKhg4 5 0 0 0 256 .
Jun 22 For me, "Loving what you do" energy comes from: - Building web products as a creative pursuit, as much as an economic one. - Working with great people, on small teams with vertical skillsets. - Short times from idea to execution - Seeing friends do well. - Shipping and launching 4 1 0 0 279 .
Jun 22 My experience as a founder is that there are renewable and non-renewable energy sources: Non-renewable - Proving the haters wrong - Returning for your investors - Getting rich So far I've only found one in the renewable category: - "Loving what you do" 14 3 1 0 254 .
Jun 22 The @editmodelabs vision & roadmap in a single graphic: https://t.co/vRyB0rH9df 6 0 0 0 83 .
Jun 21 Related: React 18 still doesn't support custom elements (To be clear I'm not anti-react, or anti-frameworks. I'm pro-simplicity, pro-beginner-friendliness, pro-interoperability.) "React is still the mobile iOS of front-end frameworks." https://t.co/b1fEOGQWsP 0 0 1 0 263 .
Jun 20 😂 https://t.co/hjxoTskuk2 0 0 0 0 25 .
Jun 19 @AlexMasmej @garrytan @ZeusLiving Think https://t.co/P6oSRCC84e does this 0 0 0 0 73 .
Jun 19 ... https://t.co/77fgUXkxVC 1 0 0 0 27 .
Jun 19 https://t.co/7ehBiQGgg3 0 0 0 0 23 .
Jun 19 The good news: We don't need jQuery any more because modern js supports that stuff now! Vanilla js ftw! 🎉 The bad news: Everything's framework-first now, so much so that new js libraries don't even have vanilla js examples & need npm & typescript to fire up a demo 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/UZk5gjjH3z 5 0 1 0 302 .
Jun 19 https://t.co/PwNHQikH1z 0 0 0 0 23 .
Jun 18 🙋‍♂️ https://t.co/XcRyx43hPg 1 0 0 0 28 .
Jun 17 Bingo https://t.co/HdCgb23Y48 0 0 0 0 29 .
Jun 16 @PierreDeWulf DM’ed 😁 1 0 0 0 21 .
Jun 16 @PierreDeWulf What do you mean by “custom js”? You mean injecting js into the page? Or doing interactive components within the page? If it’s the former I have a novel solution which is working well for us 😁 1 0 0 0 206 .
Jun 16 @cdcwatson ❤️ 0 0 0 0 13 .
Jun 16 Wow https://t.co/Zwb1ewPG7f 6 0 0 0 28 .
Jun 16 Thinking more about this. As someone whose first encounter with the legal & finance industry is post-pandemic w/ globally-distributed work, the combination of "our hourly rate is $1400, and "we can't handle that for you, you'll have to do that yourself locally" feels.. off? https://t.co/4leN2EU4S6 0 0 0 0 303 .
Jun 14 Yup. “Stop caring about what others think of you” people, who either *clearly care* about what others think, or have accumulated a sufficiently sized loyal in-group without which they would also *very much* care. Very few people are islands, those that are probably don’t tweet. https://t.co/iYR62PxhXF 0 0 0 0 302 .
Jun 13 The @atlas_knowledge plan in 3 graphics: https://t.co/MEz6aK07AV https://t.co/Z9bAmC6QI5 10 6 0 0 88 .
Jun 13 @davidbattersby Hey! I sent you a dm, just nudging in case you haven't seen it :) 0 0 0 0 81 .
Jun 13 “Entertainment is bad and something you should be ashamed of” is my least favourite Twitter take. Might it be possible that not everyone who likes to be entertained is “escaping from languishing”, or that humans have the capacity to both find meaning and enjoy being entertained https://t.co/RlDN0Jm085 2 0 0 0 302 .
Jun 12 I'm not a fan of many people, but I'm a fan of Bo. 🎶 "Can I interest you in everything, all of the time" 🎶 So good. https://t.co/dLqzJ66PHr 2 0 0 0 143 .
Jun 12 "Tables, attributes, and relationships are eating the world" doesn't really have the same ring to it... https://t.co/NvUc8ieuxI 1 0 0 0 127 .
Jun 12 Instagram's "Golden Concept" was Filters. It condensed all of photography into a single idea, paired it with a UI that anyone could understand, and created a billion photographers. Software is more complex, but there are still fortunes to be made by pulling on this thread. https://t.co/NvUc8ieuxI https://t.co/jL806R0e1M 0 0 0 0 321 .
Jun 12 The best way to unleash the power of a field is to find the smallest number of concepts that carry the most leverage. The reason consumer-relational-databases are a big deal is because, in web software, it's all just tables, attributes and relationships allll the way down. https://t.co/ABzwZPg968 1 0 0 0 297 .
Jun 11 @guanghui_zeng @cn_roam Hey Guanghui! Do you have a version of this I could install into my Roam? I'd be willing to pay for it :) 1 0 0 0 129 .
Jun 10 *web software development 🤦‍♂️ 0 0 0 0 30 .
Jun 10 This tweet was brought to you by: Feeling disillusioned with an exorbitant legal bill, at the same time as thinking about the current state of the web software development. 4 0 0 0 172 .
Jun 10 Thinking about over-complexification (yes this is a made up word). https://t.co/U3zqX7qbhU 8 0 0 0 90 .
Jun 09 ... https://t.co/aR7azoC6We 1 0 0 0 27 .
Jun 07 @houshuang hey! Curious if there's been any activity on roam/inter of late? Could really do with it on a project I'm starting soon 😁 0 0 0 0 132 .
Jun 07 @cn_roam @guanghui_zeng This looks amazing! I've tweeted about this before: https://t.co/OqcNaUWWvo And also have built a cloudflare worker hack so that I can embed an actual airtable in Roam via iFrame. So this looks like something I'd use daily 😁 How can I get access? 1 0 0 0 275 .
Jun 04 RT @peteromallet: The process of making something new: https://t.co/r2gqbUJvQh 0 0 0 0 78 .
Jun 03 @thogge @Altimor https://t.co/1kKXPUCEtr Insanity > madness > Magnus 1 0 0 0 75 .
Jun 03 @alexlmiller Big congrats! huge win!! 2 0 0 0 37 .
Jun 01 A thing that annoys me about prevailing product thinking - the over-simplification of the psychology around why a user decides to use a product, which can now only seem to be explained as a rigid causal chain from a single, discrete problem to a single, specific solution. 3 0 0 0 272 .
Jun 01 I don't have time at the minute, but if anyone wanted to take this and run with it, I'd love to see what'd happen if we poured some fuel on the fire, given how viral the core mechanic is. Could see it growing like a weed with a little bit of product/growth work. rails codebase https://t.co/5yJcnQ6NtO 6 0 0 0 301 .
Jun 01 It doesn't even have an ssl cert 😂 0 0 0 0 34 .
Jun 01 I built a game in June 2019. Since then it's had: - 200,000 minutes total gameplay - 17,000 players who've collectively played 70,000 games - 700,000 words played The only "marketing" was a single @ProductHunt launch Internet distribution is wild 🤯 https://t.co/OH43xqmlXQ https://t.co/x5nHUvqvXa 9 0 0 0 301 .
May 31 There seems to have been a big increase in independent creators making educational programming content the last few years. @hashnode, @ThePracticalDev, @Replit and others. You love to see it. Meanwhile, @Medium is still doing this... https://t.co/srZxTJU374 1 0 0 0 260 .
May 28 https://t.co/3a1spScI5l 0 0 0 0 23 .
May 28 @rivatez Read this in Logan Roy’s voice 0 0 0 0 39 .
May 27 @dayvough @ShipmatesHQ @Suhail You on rails? 0 0 0 0 44 .
May 26 https://t.co/s5GLxpIvEi 1 0 0 0 23 .
May 26 Seeing a bunch of anecdotes of this "Barbell Approach" becoming a real work trend: Pairing an expert (on a part time/fractional basis) with one or more high-energy, high aptitude on-the-ground executors. Could see it becoming much more common as work continues to go more remote https://t.co/0ccNhZvIKH 10 1 0 0 302 .
May 25 I used to think this was just legacy banks, but it's not - the whole system is broken. Services I've tried/used in the past 9 months: - Revolut - BOI - Transferwise - Payoneer - Neat - Statrys *All* of them riddled with time-sink landmines. https://t.co/7tV03E5cjY 0 0 0 0 267 .
May 25 The banks/regulators attitude is basically: these people should be grateful we've provided them with a system. How dare they complain when we demand days of their time and all sorts of paperwork to use it, and provide zero guarantee it will continue to work reliably. 😤 0 0 0 0 269 .
May 25 @xaviablaza I'm going to be hitting you up again soon to help me get as off-boarded as I possibly can 😬 Problem is that everything's still so deeply connected to the old system 0 0 0 0 176 .
May 25 Another hour on the phone attempting to get my Irish Bank to allow me to add a "reference" field in a payment being sent to the US, which has to go through *two* intermediary banks before reaching the company I'm sending it to. Fuck. The. Fucking. Banking System 4 0 0 0 263 .
May 25 I set up a *tiny* fund recently to invest in friends, with friends, and I don't know if it was worth, solely by virtue of the time/energy cost to transfer funds from one place to another. 4 0 0 0 187 .
May 24 https://t.co/IHLwoxBZn6 Another browser-based IDE. They 1. Are building on top of VScode(a lá Codespaces & Gitpod, unlike @Replit) and 2. Just managed to get node running natively in the browser, which is 🤯 and makes them my new favourite in the browser-based IDE space. 🚀 3 0 0 0 277 .
May 20 Oh wow, not sure how I didn’t see this before. 179 ratings, avg. 1.19 stars. Ouch https://t.co/z3RRPtMcte https://t.co/CR8x6dloWK 0 0 0 0 130 .
May 20 Revolut keeps your funds *so* safe that not even *you* can access them 😏 https://t.co/60ktm5cBK6 0 0 0 0 96 .
May 20 Hey @DoNotPayLaw when are you guys coming to Europe? 😁 Also what’s the process/recourse for banks that lock customer accounts without warning and without customer support? 😁 0 0 0 0 173 .
May 20 @bentossell Interesting! Assumed it was just their consumer offering, good to know to steer clear of their business one too. The “no customer support for blocked accounts” approach is insane. I had just assumed that couldn’t happen with banks, but it’s the exact same as with PayPal. Bananas 1 0 0 0 291 .
May 20 Getting close to trawling the internet for phone numbers of actual Revolut employees at this point. No phone number to call. Now all cards blocked, can’t move funds in or out, no response from support beyond “we can’t do anything”. Surely this is illegal? 0 0 0 0 255 .
May 20 @Hogan90 I was the same for a long time - was their biggest fan until this stuff started happening 😔 0 0 0 0 100 .
May 20 #BCSWF 0 0 0 0 6 .
May 19 Good to know it's not just me https://t.co/Om0FDx1U6S 0 0 0 0 53 .
May 18 @Mqsley Can’t find any way to escalate. Doesn’t seem like anyone senior is on Twitter. 😩 saddest thing is there doesn’t seem to be a better alternative, and even if there was, they have all my savings so can’t just bounce 0 0 0 0 221 .
May 18 @Mqsley Feels like something out of Black Mirror. They just swap the chat operator and say the send the same templated message. The Twitter dm support is the exact same. This time I literally can’t get in to the app, can’t move money out. Come to think of it, this can’t be legal 0 0 0 0 279 .
May 18 I’m being trolled https://t.co/GlHaasnSiK 1 0 0 0 41 .
May 18 https://t.co/sAO3bZAfPQ 0 0 0 0 23 .
May 18 ... https://t.co/7tV03E5cjY 0 0 0 0 27 .
May 18 Oooops. Here we go again @RevolutApp 😩 https://t.co/MF47IAEyp1 1 0 0 0 63 .
May 17 @Bento @tailwindcss Hey guys! If you’re looking a lightweight tool to manage said copy and marketing pages, check us out 😁 @andrewculver can vouch for us - https://t.co/GBRVc1USZS https://t.co/euSqUusZag 2 0 0 0 204 .
May 16 @Shpigford @BankMercury @discord @AutocodeHQ 2 0 0 0 44 .
May 16 Shivers. Made worse by just having watched “The Bells” yesterday https://t.co/3N2sKUdVUK 1 0 0 0 88 .
May 14 The Philippines has 100k 10-100 employee SMEs. I remember visiting some in the early days of @firstcircleph, seeing twenty-somethings starting to use @airtable at their family business, thinking about how many saas services (30+) we were using as a startup and doing the math 🤯 0 0 0 0 277 .
May 14 To add to this, what % of these SMBs currently use internet software to run their business? What % will eventually? Recurring revenue B2B saas, as a business model and industry, is still *very early*. https://t.co/T0IyYiEnnG 4 0 0 0 224 .
May 14 An idea I can’t get out of my head For most people, time is substantially more valuable than money. Many goods and services are paid for with both money *and time* Organizations that impose unnecessary time costs on users are unethical and will eventually be viewed as such 13 1 3 0 276 .
May 13 @lisaxunyc Do these tarot readers make predictions about people’s future that they present as the truth? And charge them for it? If so it is absolutely predatory. 0 0 0 0 162 .
May 13 @thekitze Love this! Very similar to Mercury OS by @jasonyuandesign . Do you have ADHD by any chance? https://t.co/tHvg99nhsf https://t.co/5sKdBH4kwS 3 0 0 0 149 .
May 13 This is insane. What’s the ratio of cost:value before something is considered a scam? https://t.co/5kTXASQGVc 2 0 0 0 109 .
May 12 @xaviablaza Nice! Congrats! 1 0 0 0 27 .
May 11 @excid3 @joemasilotti Got it, thanks! 1 0 0 0 37 .
May 11 @excid3 @joemasilotti Also, is Android in the pipeline? 😁 1 0 0 0 57 .
May 11 @excid3 @joemasilotti Great work! To clarify, is this based on a new green field rails app template or can I use my existing rails app? 1 0 0 0 135 .
May 11 Checking out https://t.co/bQaAG8BJ7a - one click install of self-hosted open source tools. Looks really nicely done 👌 https://t.co/D2a5YJjjZY 6 0 0 0 141 .
May 07 @NathanLatka https://t.co/UtibN42bcr 2 0 0 0 36 .
May 06 @dvargas92495 Best plug-and-play are https://t.co/cq0Ou4CKj3 and https://t.co/jqJX2poxSH 0 0 0 0 88 .
May 06 Honestly surprised at how accurate this thread turned out to be. 8 months later and almost nothing has changed... https://t.co/8OxWMXX0X9 5 0 0 0 138 .
May 02 @fplaza @riveravictor On the way! 0 0 0 0 33 .
May 02 @riveravictor I have an atlas topic for that 😁 - https://t.co/gH6WRbD2FI 3 0 0 0 72 .
May 01 @kevinakwok Agree. That James clear quote about “Get 1% better over 365 days” rings a bell - vague enough as to be meaningless but sounds smart. 1 0 0 0 144 .
May 01 Here's a quick one I drafted up for my favourite stack - https://t.co/QYPNoU9aF7 0 0 0 0 80 .
May 01 Love this from @jorenrui - super neat way to construct "learning paths" out of the huge amount of educational content that exists but is scattered across different platforms. Also super impressive product that was built as a side-project - slick design, great ux, super fast 🔥🔥 https://t.co/giJwMNPqTC 7 0 0 0 301 .
Apr 30 Prrraise the lord 🙏 https://t.co/pd511Oi796 1 0 0 0 43 .
Apr 30 @xaviablaza I just think that, as misdeeds go, that's minor in comparison to an employer taking advantage of crab mentality to keep jobseekers from being ambitious, encouraging them to point fingers at each other rather than at the employers, who in a lot of cases should be paying more. 1 0 0 0 287 .
Apr 30 @xaviablaza My experience is that both candidates and employers will mix-and-match arguments during salary negotiations - using the college brand name lacks tact, sure, better to argue on merit. 1 0 0 0 194 .
Apr 30 @xaviablaza Oh man, have to say I disagree. The Entitlement argument is the textbook response to an employer realizing they're on the demand side of the market. The moment that grad gets a 60k offer somewhere else, is it still entitlement? Or was the offer mis-priced? 2 0 0 0 268 .
Apr 29 @ConnorPM #growthgoat 2 0 0 0 21 .
Apr 29 @xaviablaza What is the tweet in question? 0 0 0 0 42 .
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